Google program manager Leslie Hawthorne kicked things off with: "Stuck in mass of traffic leaving work post last all hands of 2009. ZOMG we had fireworks and we all got the new Google phone. It's beautiful."

CNET's Jason Howell says he saw it, HTC did the hardware, it's unlocked and a buttload of Google employees got them this week.

And from Great White Snark: A friend from Google showed me the new Android 2.1 phone from HTC coming out in Jan. A sexy beast. Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids.

So hold on to your hats, folks. We've plopped a little Twitter search after the break, so you can waste what's left of your weekend waiting to see what else is said about the Google phone. Enjoy.

Google phone the coolest thing you've never seen!

When was the last time any new smartphone was released without at least 1 real pic of it leaking? And with this mystical beast supposedly in the hands of so many people, people that are tweeting about it so I'm guessing they're smart enough to know how to take pictures, how is it that not 1 pic, blurry cam style or otherwise, hast made it online yet?

Funny how this is supposed to be released to the public yet the public has no idea what it looks like, how much RAM, screen size or anything else that we get when we're expecting phones like the Sony Ericson X10, Huawei U8230, LG Etna, HTC Click, etc. Yet we can find spy shots, videos and the like on all these devices. Were are the shots of this?

It's probably a developer phone. Right now the only ADP phones (Android Developer Phone) are versions of the G1 and myTouch. No dev phones match the power of, say, the DROID or other devices slated to come out next year. That's probably why it will be unlocked.

Google is moving down in the stack to challenge B2C opponents with an open architecture and new sets of standards. In creating a post-revenue business model, Google can only manage success if consumers accept a co-branding and outsourced manufactured device ... NQ Logic recommends reading about the rest of the new Google's mobile strategy at www.nqlogic.com

the title says the coolest phone youve never seen, well we have seen it before its the HTC passion now to be known as the Google nexus one. i gotta say the phone is great looking i cant wait to pick one up, but honestly i was hoping for something different from Google. I'm not saying it in a bad way. I'm just left wondering if Google could of done a design totally there own. as far as i know this phone existed in HTC's arsenal. anyway cant wait for it.

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